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Urban Composition of United States Counties, 1850 (ICPSR 7455)

Principal Investigator(s):Vinovskis, Maris

Summary:

This dataset contains several measures of urban
concentration for each of the 1,606 United States counties in
existence in 1850. Included are measures of the white and total
populations in each county, as well as percentages of the white and
total populations that resided in towns of various sizes. Town-level
population counts were collected from Tables I and II of the SEVENTH
CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1850. The principal investigator manually
aggregated individual town counts to vario... (more info)

This dataset contains several measures of urban
concentration for each of the 1,606 United States counties in
existence in 1850. Included are measures of the white and total
populations in each county, as well as percentages of the white and
total populations that resided in towns of various sizes. Town-level
population counts were collected from Tables I and II of the SEVENTH
CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1850. The principal investigator manually
aggregated individual town counts to various town size measures, and
calculated percentages of county population totals. Variables on total
and white populations of each county were added to this data
collection by ICPSR, from HISTORICAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, ECONOMIC, AND
SOCIAL DATA: THE UNITED STATES, 1790-1970 (ICPSR 0003).

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Study Description

Citation

Vinovskis, Maris. URBAN COMPOSITION OF UNITED STATES COUNTIES, 1850. Compiled by Maris Vinovskis, University of Michigan. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1977. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07455.v1

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Methodology

Data Source:

(1) SEVENTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1850, and (2)
HISTORICAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL DATA: THE UNITED STATES,
1790-1970 (ICPSR 0003)